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Archive for May 2025: Page 2
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Our current exhibition ‘Joe Orton in 1964’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/06/03/our-current-exhibition-joe-orton-in-1964/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 3, 2014 When Joe Orton’s play Entertaining Mr Sloane was performed in the West End in 1964, it provoked both virulent criticism and glowing praise – he enjoyed both in equal measure. The critic W.
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Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/
Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...
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The Doctor as a ‘Street-Level Bureaucrat’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/09/23/the-doctor-as-a-street-level-bureaucrat/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on September 23, 2018 Why don’t policies play out as planned? It’s a key question in public policy.
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The World that Management Made
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/04/20/the-world-that-management-made/
Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on April 20, 2016 Robert MacFarlane’s excellent piece on the ‘Anthropocene’ age in a recent issue of The Guardian deserves attention in a number of ways.
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Audiovisual Heritage at the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/10/21/audiovisual-heritage-at-the-university-of-leicester/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 21, 2019 Sunday 27th October 2019 is UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. To join in the celebrations, this blog post looks at some of the Audiovisual Heritage work done at the University of Leicester.
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Forge Needle Museumn
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/forge-needle-museum/
A page describing the collections at Forge Needle Museum that the UOSH project has worked with.
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Dryad Collection – S is for Smock and Sheepskin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/06/29/dryad-collection-s-is-for-smock-and-sheepskin/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on June 29, 2022 As I continue to catalogue the Dryad Collection , some of the books stand out as belonging to a different era of attitudes towards clothes.
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News and New Normals – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/03/22/news-and-new-normals/
This blog post celebrates recent paper presentations and discusses what it has been like for the team to continue scanning during the third national lockdown in England.
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Cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky: interview by Dilan Ucer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2021/10/29/cartoonist-vladimir-kazanevsky-interview-dilan-ulcer/
Political cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) is interviewed by University of Leicester student Dilan Ucer.